Retail

October 28, 1985|By Jack Snyder of The Sentinel Staff

Hardy/Lieb Development Corp. has broken ground on the 110,000-square-foot Dyer Square Shopping Center at U.S. Highway 192 and Dyer Road in Kissimmee. The center is to open early next year. John Wickert, vice president of the development company, said 39,000 cars pass the shopping center site each day. He said when the center opens, it will be like having Interstate 4 going by the property. The center will be anchored by a 40,000-square-foot Kash n' Karry Supermarket. Po Folks Restaurants also plans to open a restaurant in the center, he added. The center will have 48,000 square feet of small retail shops. Hardy/Lieb recently opened the 196,000-square-foot Piedmont Plaza at Wekiva shopping center on State Road 436 at the Wekiva-Piedmont Road in Orange County west of Forest City. . . . Construction is expected to start early next year on the first phase of Lake Mary Centre, a 359,000-square-foot center at Lake Mary Boulevard and Lake Emma Road in Lake Mary. Meanwhile, BP Development and Management Corp. will break ground Tuesday on Osceola Square Mall on U.S. Highway 192 in Kissimmee. The mall will include an 82,000-square-foot Wal- Mart, a 33,000-square-foot Ross Dress For Less, a 12,800-square-foot Eckerd Drug Store, a 10,300-square-foot Morrison's Cafeteria and a Cobb 6-Plex Movie Theater. The Wal-Mart opened earlier this month. The theaters are to open by next June. The rest of the center is to be completed by next fall.